Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
NEIL ARMSTRONGIt’s different, but it’s very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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Pilots naturally fly the craft in such a manner as to take advantage of its good characteristics and avoid the areas where it is not so good.
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Start at the end and work back.
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Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
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We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.
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No matter when you had been to this spot before, a thousand years ago or a hundred thousand years ago, or if you came back to it a million years from now, you would see some different things each time, but the scene would be generally the same.
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The single thing which makes any man happiest is the realization that he has worked up to the limits of his ability, his capacity. It’s all the better, of course, if this work has made a contribution to knowledge, or toward moving the human race a little farther forward.
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Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
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In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
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I tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.
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People love conspiracy theories.
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I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
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It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul, we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
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Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.
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